What we pay for
Saying “no” to taxes means saying “no” to a lot
Sure, it’s easy to tease people frozen in a photo, but it’s worth pointing out that reducing taxes has consequences to citizens. This enhanced photo of anti-tax protesters making its way around the Internet offers an effective (and funny) picture of the infrastructure that some of us might at times forget was paid for with public money. Not labeled: Sewers, public education, Social Security and Medicare.
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